Ignacia works for Oxfam as Gender Humanitarian Staff Personnel.
She is a gender and disability specialist with 10+ years’ experience working in migration and low-income settings. Within the sector, her experience includes: Trainings on Female Genital Mutilation for survivors within the asylum seeker and refugee community; setting up and managing Women and Girls’ Safe Spaces; women’s access to shelter and WASH; access to healthcare for women with disabilities; supporting women’s grassroots organisation; and developing strategies for the prevention and mitigation of gender-based violence in refugee camps and low-income communities.
Ignacia is an experienced researcher with a focus on participatory and feminist methodologies such as photovoice, gender time-use and timelines, participatory planning, and safety audits and mapping for GBV. She also has experience in qualitative data analysis using NVivo and quantitative data collection with digital tools such as Kobo Collect.
She has led multi-cultural teams and collaborated with Médecins Sans Frontières, World Health Organisation, Global Disability Innovation Hub, University College London, Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre, Federation of Urban and Rural Slum Dwellers in Sierra Leone, Indonesian NGO Kota Kita and Latin American NGO TECHO.
Ignacia holds a PhD from University College London which focused on women’s access to shelter and community-based strategies to mitigate gender-based violence. Ignacia speaks fluent Spanish and English, and has a working knowledge of Portuguese.
Country Experience: Brazil, Chile, Greece, Indonesia, Kenya, Perú, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and The Philippines.